In article <
ikoktl...@mid.individual.net>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
Oh, gosh. There's a whole building like that on the Berkeley
Campus of the University of California. It's called Dwinelle
Hall and it houses a lot of English and other languages' classes.
It's built on a hill. There's a classroom wing and a faculty
office wing.
So if you go in the main (eastern) entrance, you're on the
floor where all the classrooms have three-digit numbers
beginning with 1. There's a floor above it where all the
classrooms have three-digit numbers beginning with 2.
Beneath the 1XX floor there's a floor where all the
classrooms have *two*-digit numbers, and beneath that there
are a few rooms (class-, storage-, and I forget what else)
beginning with B.
But if instead of going upstairs or down, you go north, you get
into the office wing, which has rooms with *four*-digit numbers,
until you get to the bottommost floor which has (IIRC)
three-digit numbers. Also, this wing is in the shape of a hollow
square surrounding a small garden that no one but Grounds and
Buildings employees can get into. This is so each of the offices
can have a window.
And I think I'm forgetting another few odd details; it's been a
while.
Poul Anderson wrote a story set in and around Dwinelle once. I
think it was the one about two telepaths detect each other from
a distance, and they're very eager to meet in person ... until
they get close enough to read ALL each other's thoughts, and turn
away in disgust. Anyone remember the title?